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Knight of Wands Tarot Card Meaning and Art Ercole I d'Este Tarot Deck Fragment

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Designation

Knight of Wands

About the Deck

Ercole I d'Este Tarot Deck Fragment

One of the earliest extant Tarot Decks, this deck features heraldic emblems of Ercole I d'Este and his wife, Leonora of Aragon.

Provenance

Italy, c. 1473

Tags

este-eagle, clubs-12, knight-of-wands, knight, clubs

According to Many Schools of Thought

Papus's Divinatory Meanings

A dark young man. A friend.

A. E. Waite's Secondary Meanings

Upright

A bad card; according to some readings, alienation.

Reversed

For a woman, marriage, but probably frustrated.

S. L. MacGregor Mathers's Divinatory Meanings

Upright

Departure, Separation, Disunion

Reversed

Rupture, Discord, Quarrel.

Knight of Wands from the Ercole I d'Este Tarot Deck Fragment Deck